Due to high levels of nutrients in the Southern Ocean, it exhibits substantial primary productivity. A view of onboard incubation process on a research vessel.
Abstract: The Southern Ocean plays a major role in the global carbon sequestration and cycling, strongly influencing the global climate pattern. Since 2004, ten successful scientific expeditions to the Indian sector of Southern Ocean have been carried out to understand its complexities and role in carbon sequestration, biodiversity and other Earth system processes.
The authors are scientists at the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa. anil@ncaor.gov.in . The article should be cited as Kumar A, S. C. Tripathy and R. K. Mishra, 2019. Process studies in the Southern Ocean: An overview & future perspective, Geography and You, 19(16): 14-20
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